We visited Buncrana library today for a fun biodiversity workshop. The workshop was led by Cathal Ó Fearraigh who gave us an exciting talk on the remarkable role bees play in our ecosystem. Cathal showed us a beehive, the honeycomb and a bee-keeper’s suit. We learned lots about the importance of pollinators. Thanks to Cathal and also to Ursula and Jeanette in Buncrana Library for inviting us to visit.

It was lovely to welcome Bishop Andrew to St. Mura’s yesterday. We had a special assembly based on the theme of “The Lord is my Shepherd”. A special thank you to our readers and musicians under the guidance of Mrs. Anne Moore who helped us to prepare for our assembly and also to Bishop Andrew for joining us. We had such a nice day.

Our Junior Classroom had a great school tour yesterday in Buncrana. First we went to Buncrana cinema to see “The Lego Movie” and afterwards we headed to Wainsworld where we had lots of fun in the play area. We also loved our tasty lunch which was followed by some yummy ice-cream! 😋 Thank you to Wainsworld for a great day out.

Thank you to the Pushkin Trust for inviting our Senior Classroom to Baronscourt Estate on Thursday. We had a great day out and enjoyed using our creative skills and working with other groups under the theme of “Hitch the Sails”.

Bernie came to visit our school recently for a fun-filled drama lesson with both classrooms as part of the Creative Schools Programme. We really enjoyed working together and coming up with lots of different ideas for role-play and mime under the theme of summer

We had a really enjoyable “Ag Súgradh le chéile” workshop with Lisa on Friday. Thanks to Lisa for coming in and doing lots of fun activities with us and thanks also to parents for coming to school and joining in the fun!😀

We had a brilliant day with David Mc Cann from Marine Explorers learning all about sharks. Everyone enjoyed putting our learning into practice as we pulled on our wellies and headed to the beach to look for shark eggs and other marine life on the shoreline. Thanks again David for a fun-filled Friday.

A huge thank you to Buncrana Red Cross for coming in to teach us First Aid. Everyone really enjoyed it and we learned so much from Joseph, Patrick, Emer, Dorota and Kasia.

We welcomed Ronan to school this morning as part of Pushkin. We had so much fun learning to play the Djembi drums.

Both classrooms were getting very creative today with dance. Carmel was our Pushkin Facilitator and she visited us to do a dance workshop under the Pushkin theme of “Hitch the Sails. We really enjoyed this

Thank you to Julie McGee from Artlink for a wonderful art lesson today under the Pushkin theme of “Hitch the Sails.” Pupils were encouraged to experiment with printing, collage and painting to create their masterpieces. Well done to our boys and girls!

Our pupils recently took part in a dance workshop with Ayesha Mailey under the Pushkin theme of “Hitch the Sails.”

We had a brilliant day today celebrating World Book Day. Our pupils did a wonderful job of dressing up as their favourite characters. Well done to you all. 😊We all came together this morning for a special assembly with Mr. Barnes. The Junior Classroom had a zoom call with the author of Dragonterra books, Louise Flanagan, and the Senior Classroom picked up some great books with our book tokens. We also visited Buncrana Library who organised lovely activities for us for World Book Day. Happy World Book Day!

We love Pancake Tuesday. ❤️ Thank you to all our Senior Room pupils for helping out and a big thank you to Mrs. Gallagher for making us all delicious pancakes. They were yummy!😋

We had a lovely day recently doing pottery with Lorraine from Peninsula Pottery. This was part of the Creative Schools Programme. We made lovely creations using the theme of biodiversity and looking after our wildlife

A big thank you to Donegal County Library for inviting us over to make St. Brigid crosses. This is an annual tradition that we look forward to each Spring.

Our Senior Classroom are participating in cycle training with Fergus and Gemma McDaid. The pupils have made great progress and are learning lots about road safety.

Well done to our wonderful pupils who represented St. Mura’s in the Credit Union Quiz last night in Inishowen Gateway.👏

Congratulations to our amazing pupils on their wonderful performance at our Christmas Carol Service. We are very proud of you all..🤩 A special thank you to Canon McNee, Mrs. Moore and Annette McNelis for their support and guidance in the preparation for our service and to those who organised the tea and treats afterwards. Happy Christmas!🎄

This has been a very busy week in St. Mura’s so we were delighted to get a trip to Buncrana cinema today to see “Home Alone”. A great way to get into a festive mood! 🎅🎄 Thanks to Shauna and Gary from South Inishowen School Completion Programme for organising this and also for the delicious treats.😀